The explosive debut novel featuring hard-nosed cop "Fang" Mulheisen—from an author who "stands right up there with the best chroniclers of urban crime" ( The New York Times).The city of Detroit doesn't have many places anyone would exactly call "nice." But the exclusive enclave of Indian Village is an oasis of calm surrounded by urban blight. At least until a beautiful young heiress is murdered during a home robbery gone horribly wrong . ...

"Fang" Mulheisen joins forces with his nemesis to uncover a terrorist plot—from "the best-kept secret of hard-boiled crime fiction connoisseurs" ( The New York Times Book Review).When a bomb goes off at an environmental protest, Detroit police detective "Fang" Mulheisen's own mother is among the wounded. He turns in his badge to care for her—but once she recovers, his instincts drive him to return to the case on his own.Detective ...

A taut police thriller featuring detective "Fang" Mulheisen—from a writer hailed as "the best-kept secret of hard-boiled crime fiction connoisseurs" ( The New York Times Book Review).When a cop guns down an intruder during a break-in, it seems like another case of a bad guy meeting a bad end—until the owner of the garage being burgled is revealed to be Jerry Vanni, a young man whose trucking empire is branching out into juke boxes and ven...

Detective "Fang" Mulheisen returns in a rollicking thriller hailed as "a quirky, comic delight that brings to mind early Elmore Leonard" ( Booklist).Detroit's Det. Sgt. "Fang" Mulheisen is far from home and hunting for his seemingly unkillable nemesis, a hired gun named Joe Service, who survived a gunshot to the head and escaped a hospital with the help of his beguiling nurse.Joe is in Salt Lake City looking for his longtime lover and partner in cr...

Dogged Detroit detective "Fang" Mulheisen is on the hunt for an old nemesis in this "superb" entry in the hard-hitting mystery series ( Booklist).After waging a personal war of vengeance against the Detroit mob for killing her father, Helen Sedlacek drove off into the sunset with a truckload of cash and her wily hit-man boyfriend, Joe Service. So when Detective Sergeant Mulheisen hears that a man fitting Joe's description is in a hospital...

"The toughest, most darkly comic, consistently superior American procedural on the market" takes on the greatest mystery of all: the death of Jimmy Hoffa ( Booklist).When an eager young historian asks Detroit police detective "Fang" Mulheisen for the real story of Grootka—his legendary law-enforcement mentor—the question leads him to uncover his late friend's notebooks. And with them, Mulheisen may also have stumbled upon the answer to one of the biggest u...

A criminal couple joins a nefarious underground organization in this novel full of "sharp characterization, vivid scenes, and offbeat humor" ( The Oregonian).When anyone in the Detroit underworld hears the names Joe Service and Helen Sedlacek, they know lots of trouble—and bullet-riddled bodies—are sure to follow.That's why Joe and Helen are perfect recruits for the Lucani—a group of rogue operatives, covert intelligence, and cold-blooded killers w...

A wily lady thief is groomed for mafia infamy in this "masterpiece of diabolical design" from the author of Deadman ( The New York Times Book Review).Helen Sedlacek thought that when she stole millions from the mob, she'd be running for the rest of her life. So she's more than a little surprised when mob boss Humphrey DiEbola offers her a job.DiEbola claims that he's looking to retire. With an eye for ruthless talent, he wants to groom Hel...

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND MODERN CLASSIC FROM MASTER STORYTELLER STEPHEN KINGA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEARNAMED ONE OF THE 50 BEST THRILLER BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY BY THE NEW YORK TIMESWINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZEOn November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the wo...

Includes the stories THE LONG WALK, made into a major film by The Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence and THE RUNNING MAN, also a film starring Glenn Powell.For years, readers wrote asking if Richard Bachman was really world-bestselling Stephen King writing under another name. Now the secret is out - and so, brought together in one volume, are these three spellbinding stories of future shock and suspense.The Long Walk: A chilling look a...

Twenty of America's best mystery short stories from 2011, selected by a #1 New York Times–bestselling author.The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made th...

The perfect books for when you have a few minutes to kill.If you've got the time, we've got the crime. Test your detective skills and powers of deduction with 80 of the best quick-read whodunits in the popular Five-minute Mysteries series.Here's the idea: take about five minutes and read a mystery. The stories - some about the crime, some about evidence left behind, or perhaps the getaway or the investigating detective, and so on - are told with all the cl...